Archiving

General Information and the Scope

Regional Economics: Theory and Practice is a peer-reviewed academic journal founded in 2003 in accordance with the classical subscription model. Since 2018, the journal has been offering authors different ways of publishing their research findings, including the Open Access model.

The journal publishes research and practice articles on the results of research in the field of the following:

Theory of regional economy

Regional economic policy and its implementation mechanism

Sustainable development of regions

Development of perspective lines of economy of individual regions

Development of mathematical methods and models of analysis and forecasting of socio-economic processes of social life

Environmental economics

Ecology

Land management

Population economics

Demography

Gender politics

The journal provides a wide scope of research of regularities of development and peculiarities of functioning of the economy of the Russian Federation as a system of regions: economic zones, large economic regions, sub-sovereign entities, and economic clusters.

Development of the theory of regional economy; Methods and tools of regional economic research; Issues of regional economic measurements

Spatial distribution of economic resources; Theoretical, methodological and applied aspects of placement of enterprises and organizations, labor resources, complexes of various types of economic activity

Territorial arrangement of the national economy; Formation, functioning and development of territorial-industrial complexes, industrial units and other forms of territory-arranged economic systems

Issues of socio-economic zoning; Administrative-territorial division of the country, interaction and interconditionality of economic zoning and administrative-territorial division

Analysis of reactions of regional socio-economic systems to the changes of national macroeconomic parameters and institutional conditions

Territorial organization of regional economic development; Types of regions (developed and depressed, donors and recipients, single-product and diversified, etc.); Methodological problems of classification and the applied research of the peculiarities of development of different types of regions

Issues of sustainable development of regions of different levels; Monitoring of economic, social, and ecological development of regions of different levels

Development of mathematical methods and models of analysis and forecasting of the development of social and economic processes of public life: demographic processes, labor market and employment, quality of life of population, etc.

Article Selection Criteria

The main criteria to accept an article for publication in the Regional Economics: Theory and Practice journal are the article's high quality, originality, novelty, and research and practice significance of the submitted materials.

Reviewing

Articles are reviewed internally and/or externally. For more details please refer to Regulation on Reviewing. Considering Reviewers' feedback, the Chief Editor decides whether the material meets all the required criteria. Reviewers remain anonymous for Authors throughout the reviewing process, likewise articles they deal with are unnamed. Anonymous reports of Reviewers are sent to Authors, without being in the public domain. Articles undergo double blind peer reviewing.

Copyright

Archiving

Regional Economics: Theory and Practice articles are archived in CyberLeninka and Scientific Electronic Library (elibrary.ru). Furthermore, Authors may deposit the published articles in their universities' archives on their own after the embargo period is over.The embargo period for this journal is 24 months.

Indexing in Databases

Articles of the Regional Economics: Theory and Practice journal are indexed in the Russian Scientific Citation Index, VINITI (Referativny Zhurnal), and Google Scholar.

Higher Attestation Commission (VAK) List

Regional Economics: Theory and Practice is on the list of Higher Attestation Commission (VAK) of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation recommending journals for Authors to publish their papers on the scientific content of their theses on Economics in pursuit of PhD and doctoral degree.

Plagiarism Check

The Editorial takes all cases of plagiarism, self-plagiarism or any other scientific misconduct very seriously. Authors should be aware that all manuscripts are checked by using the plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat and other resources. Any incident will result in a correction request or even rejection or retraction of the article. The Editorial withholds the right to impose further penalties such as a ban of publication in Regional Economics: Theory and Practice for a two-year period.

Article Submission

Journal Details

Regional Economics: Theory and Practice®
A peer reviewed analysis and practice journal
ISSN 2311-8733 (Online), ISSN 2073-1477 (Print)
Since 2003
Volume: 196-204 pages; Issue format: А4
Current journal frequency: Monthly
Previous journal frequency:
- Until January 2016: 48 issues per year
- Until January 2010: 42 issues per year
- Until January 2009: 36 issues per year
- Until January 2008: 18 issues per year
- Until January 2007: 12 issues per year
- Until January 2004: 3 issues per year<

Registration Certificate ПИ № ФС77-66218 of July 1, 2016 by the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media

Previous Registration Certificate ПИ № 77-14700 of February 17, 2003 by the Ministry of Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation